6/28/23  A friend overlooks your broken fence and admires the flowers in your garden.

30 inch of rain Monday night and yesterday morning.  Fog, calm, and 64 degrees now.  Rain this morning, occasion showers this afternoon, possible showers overnight.  A brisk ESE breeze with a high of 71, a low of 62.  Scattered thunderstorms tomorrow with a SSE breeze, a high of 75, a low of 61.  Cloudy Friday and Saturday with brisk SSE breezes.  Friday's high 79, the low 59.  Saturday's high 76, the low 61. 60% chance of showers Sunday and Monday with east breezes.  Sunday's high 71, the low 62.  Monday's high 74, the low 63.  50% chance of scattered thunderstorms Tuesday, the 4th with a NNW breeze, a high of 78, a low of 63.  Isolated thunderstorms next Wednesday with a north breeze, a high of 79, a low of 59.   PM thunderstorms next Thursday with an ENE breeze, a high of 81, a low of 62. Showers the next seven days with easterly breezes, highs in the upper seventies, lows about 63.

    Yesterday was a good day.  In the morning, Sally Jo hung the summer curtains in the get together room.  Like everything else this year they are late but the sun will shine, summer will be here.  It was cloudy yesterday afternoon but the sun was shining through the clouds.  I finished the flower bed  under the get together room windows.  Besides getting all the flowers planted I'm trying to get the beds mulched.  Mowing is much easier when they are mulched.  It looks like it may be dry enough Friday for Sally Jo to mow again.

    Jay planted the blue hubbard yesterday.  Planting that wasn't simple .  First he covered a rough area that has nettles in it with plastic.  Then he put tires stacked two high and filled with dirt.  No remay on the blue hubbard.  Cucumber beetles love blue hubbard..  The goal is not only to smother the patch of nettles and weeds but attract the beetles to the blue hubbard giving the cucumbers a break. There are no blossoms on the hubbard plants so Jay can powder the beetles that come to them.  He won't put powder on the cucumbers because they have  lots of blossoms.  He'll only use an organic spray late at night that is  only toxic for six hours.  it will be gone by morning so the bees aren't poisoned...  Jay hung yellow sticky cards all through the cucumber and summer squash, The cards were covered with beetles.in a few hours.  We need to get more.  He also handpicked hundreds of them.  Customers are telling us that they have used non organic sprays and still have beetles.  Bugs are a serious problem this year, ticks, cucumber beetles and all kinds in between.  The good bugs seem to be winning against most of the bad bugs in our gardens.  There are even far less ticks than there were.  Toads eat lots of ticks.  and snakes eat mice.  A mouse can have up to a hundred ticks on it so the snakes are helping with the ticks too.

    May God bless you on this day, Sally